wildlife management

wildlife management

Students at Penn State DuBois have launched a collegiate chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), and they're gearing up to hold their first major fundraising event in September. Dubbed the Penn State DuBois Strutters, the new organization is one of only two collegiate chapters of the NWTF in Pennsylvania, with the other being based at Penn State's University Park campus.

Conventional oil and gas development in northern Pennsylvania altered bird communities, and the current massive build-out of shale-gas infrastructure may accelerate these changes, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

There was a time not so long ago when virtually every college student desiring a career in wildlife management was focused on the outdoors because he or she was a hunter. But that's not true today, so to combat this lack of knowledge, Gary San Julian, professor emeritus of wildlife resources, helped create a program in which students could learn for themselves about the value of hunting.

While some wildlife ecologists are fighting to save the seals, the eagles, or the manatees, Richard Yahner and Betsie Balcom are saving the rats.

The Allegheny woodrat—a grayish brown rodent more mouselike than its name suggests—has been rapidly disappearing from the deciduous forests of the northeastern United States. In less than two decades, the woodrat has vanished entirely from New York, has declined quickly in Pennsylvania, and has been reduced to only one colony in New Jersey.